[coreboot] [PATCH] fix potential smm security hole

Joseph Smith joe at settoplinux.org
Thu Jul 29 17:55:03 CEST 2010




On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:47:12 +0200, Stefan Reinauer
<stefan.reinauer at coresystems.de> wrote:
>  This patch resulted from a security review of coreboot's SMM handler.
> Feedback appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> Stefan

Hello Stefan,
I thought the SMM Handler already lived at 0xa0000 instead of TSEG or HSEG.
I don't really understand where the security hole is?
Can you explain a little more in depth?

-- 
Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
www.settoplinux.org





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